The science of digging up the human past — from antiquarians and treasure hunters to LiDAR and ancient DNA. Site survey, stratigraphy & the Harris matrix, excavation technique, dating (radiocarbon, dendrochronology, OSL), pottery typology, lithics, metallurgy, zoo- & archaeo-botany, bioarchaeology & isotopes, the Paleolithic to the Iron Age, Egypt & the pyramids, Mesopotamia, Indus, Shang & the Terracotta Army, classical Greece & Rome (Pompeii, Herculaneum), Maya, Aztec, Inca & Mesoamerica, Cahokia, Great Zimbabwe, Polynesian voyaging, underwater & industrial archaeology, forensic archaeology, famous finds (Tutankhamun, Rosetta Stone, Dead Sea Scrolls, Ötzi), looting & repatriation, public archaeology & museums, and the future (AI, LiDAR, climate threats). 45 units, 675 lessons.